Ed Zynda
Coder | Hacker | Superhero
Recently I needed to add some social media functionality to a project. I needed to be able to post to Twitter and Facebook whenever a user created a new item in the web app. I had never done this before in PHP because normally I would use some sort of plugin in WordPress to do this. Since this was not a WordPress site, I needed to do it by hand. Luckily this isn’t as hard as you might think.…
Read more »I’m a very visual person so when I’m developing something, I like see and interact with my projects exactly how I would if it was in the production stage. The problem is, I don’t have a handful of test users on call to register on my test application and start using it. Laravel already has an easy way to populate your databases with users and other data but there’s still some manual data entry involved.…
Read more »PHP is often considered the glue of the Internet because it’s can be used for a lot of different things. There are so many built in functions and features that you are unlikely to use close to all of them if you work with PHP the rest of your life. This is great because we can solve various problems in our web apps without resorting to bringing in another language. Sometimes though, our application logic can get quite large or resource intensive.…
Read more »The first thing we’ll need to do is create a default layout. This is the layout that the rest of our views will extend. Let’s save it as ‘app/views/layouts/default.blade.php’. …
Read more »The Internet is the wild west these days. With hackers, scammers and even governments gathering our personal communications, you may have become pretty paranoid about what you post online these days. In response to all this paranoia, there have been several offerings from online applications to SaaS services claiming to improve your security and protect your data online. I wouldn’t say that I fall into the paranoid category but security, anonymity and cryptography fascinate me.…
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